Amat Al Alim Alsoswa

Later on, she became a news anchor on Yemeni television, also serving as a political commentator.

In the Netherlands, she was Yemen's Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

[5] In May 2003, Alsoswa was appointed the Minister of Human rights in Yemen, the second female Minister of Human Rights in Yemen's history after Waheeba Ghalib Faree al-Fakih.

She was made an Officier of the Légion d'Honneur (France) and received the Medal of the Egyptian Committee for Afro-Asian Solidarity (Egypt).

[10] She also stresses that "even against immense odds, women remain catalysts for reform in Arab countries.